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Why Mice Cannot Type

16/06/201722/09/2015

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Ian Gibbins is an award-winning poet, video artist and electronic musician working across diverse forms. Until he retired in 2014, he was a neuroscientist and Professor of Anatomy at Flinders University. He lives in South Australia on unceded Kaurna land.

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